Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-era New York with a remarkable father; a mother, Katharine White, who was a founding editor of the New Yorker; and a famous stepfather, the writer E. B. White. Intimate, funny, and moving portraits form the book's centerpiece as Angell remembers his surprising relatives, his early attraction to baseball in the time of Ruth and Gehrig and DiMaggio, and his vivid colleagues during a long career as a New Yorker writer and editor. Infused with pleasure and sadness, Angell's disarming memoir also evokes an attachment to life's better moments.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
An Engaging Memoir:
Roger Angell, known more popularly for his baseball books, has written an engaging memoir that takes the reader from his childhood to the present. It is not an autobiography, in the sense of covering all the major pieces of his life in sequence; instead, it's a series of vignettes relying on Angell's most pronounced memories. A writer for the New Yorker, we get a glimpse at the lives of writers, editors and others, as well as Angell's constant exposure through writing and literature as a result of the... more info
The Perfect Bedside Companion:
I keep this book ever at my bedside table and I give it five stars because of the incalculable help it's been to me nightly. At the first hint of insomnia's midnight itch, I simply reach for this unfailing bromide and "Poof," am whisked so gently and perfectly into the nether realms of unconscious bliss that I awaken wonderfully refreshed with scarce a moment's recall of the night in question. I highly recommend it. Try it, gentle insomniac, and you too can have flights of Angells sing thee to thy rest.
If Scott Fitzgerald Had Worked At The New Yorker:
Don't be fooled by Roger Angell's encyclopedic knowledge of major-league baseball into thinking he isn't in the same league as F.Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. Because he is....Roger Angell was keeping score of the American Scene all the while he was watching the "greats" of mid-20th century American literature make their indubitable marks. Now, his chronicler's eye catches some very poignant truths--"hard lines"--in these tranquil reflections about times and places when engaging people wanted to be... more info
Good Book:
This book won't change your life or give you insight but I don't hink that was the intention of the author.
It is a very comfortable book.
Mr. Angell vividly describes his life as a writer and his life in general.
I didn't give it four stars because "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the apex. All else pales.
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